Counties Where ICE Arrests Concentrate: Number 1 San Bernadino County, CA

TRAC Report:  More than a quarter (28%) of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of immigrants living and working in communities across America took place in just ten counties in the United States, along with their immediate surrounding locales. Fully half of all such arrests by ICE occurred in just 24 counties out of the nearly 3,200 counties across the country. These arrests took place during the eight-month period from October 2017 through May 2018.

The top ten counties with the most so-called “ICE community arrests” are shown in Figure 1. Three out of ten of these counties were located in California, while the remaining seven were widely dispersed in other states.

Figure 1. Top 10 Counties/Surrounding Locales Where Most ICE Community Arrests Occurred, FY 2018 (October 2017 – May 2018)

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